{"id":6966,"date":"2015-01-02T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2016-11-30T10:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:07:42","slug":"snowflake-crafts-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/02\/snowflake-crafts-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowflake Crafts in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Instagram<\/a>\u00a0account has made no secret of how we are enjoying wintertime and while most of the country is entrenched in a cold spell, we are here in Florida, sweating it out.<\/p>\n

Truly, one of the hardest things about living in Florida is the severe lack of seasons, unless you consider hot, rainy and not as hot seasons. \u00a0And snow is one thing I miss being able to share with my kids (though I can’t say I miss driving in the snow or shoveling out!) \u00a0My kids aren’t strangers to snow<\/a>, they’ve seen it regularly and got to play<\/a>\u00a0just a few weeks ago when we were visiting family up North, but it’s not a regular part of our lives and it definitely doesn’t feel like winter where we are.<\/p>\n

So we decided to spend this week creating our own winter wonderland, making different snow and snowflake crafts.<\/p>\n

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We of course, started with the traditional paper snowflakes, cutting out shapes and exploring different ways to make them beautiful and the girls quickly learned how important it to not let the cuts run into each other or they will end up with a severed flake! \u00a0But once they got the hang of it, they came up with some really nice creations!<\/p>\n

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We also made crystal snowflakes which were so easy (though ours didn’t come out as crystally as the ones in the directions I followed, which are here<\/a>). \u00a0We started by making pipecleaner snowflakes then mixed together Borax and boiling water until the Borax was dissolved. \u00a0I tied our snowflakes onto a wire rack to hang over the top of the pot with the snowflakes in the mixture and wait. \u00a0 It’s\u00a0supposed to create snowflakes covered in crystals so we may need to try this one again though the girls were still very excited about their creations!<\/p>\n